Steam game service gets Unreal titles

Following in the footsteps if id Software and Rockstar, Epic has decided to make its rich history of Unreal games available on Valve’s Steam service.

Right now you can download Unreal Gold, Unreal II: The Awakening, Unreal Tournament: Game of the Year Edition and Unreal Tournament 2004: Editor’s Choice Edition. Their latest game, Unreal Tournament 3, is also available on the service.

If that wasn’t enough good news, all the games are currently being offered with a 10% discount as long as you buy before March 24. You also save yourself some money by buying the Unreal Deal Pack containing all the games in the series for just US$53.95. That price also includes the current 10% discount.

It’s certainly not as good a value as the id Super Pack (US$69.95 for 22 games), but Epic just doesn’t have the same number of games going back as far as id does. With the way in which Steam works it’s a great opportunity to get access to Epic’s back catalog and not have to worry about whether your original discs still work or even where they are.